Interim Portrait #384
Artist
Bill Jacobson
(American, born 1955)
Date1992
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 23 15/16 × 19 15/16 inches (60.8 × 50.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4046
InscribedSigned in artist's hand
On Signature Card
ed. (?) of 9
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionSoftly focused image of a man with his head tilted slightly down. His features are blurred.Gallery LabelBill Jacobson’s ghostly images suggest the themes of life, death, and loss in a quietly meditative way. He made the series Interim Portraits in direct response to the AIDS pandemic but aimed for an even broader frame of reference. As Jacobson has stated, “Ideally, my pictures function as a metaphor for the way the mind works: simultaneously collecting images while letting others go, fading in the way that memories fade…”
Copyright© Bill Jacobson
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